• Gilmer is a neighborhood in central Roanoke, Virginia, USA, abutting the Norfolk Southern rail yard that initially developed in the 1920s as an early...
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  • Gilmer may refer to: Gilmer, Illinois Gilmer, Roanoke, Virginia Gilmer, Texas Gilmer, Washington Gilmer, West Virginia Gilmer County, Georgia Gilmer County...
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  • Elijah McClanahan (category People from Roanoke County, Virginia)
    planter and soldier in western Virginia and the Roanoke Valley. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the 5th/121st Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, and...
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  • Loudon-Melrose is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in west Roanoke south of U.S. 460 (Melrose Avenue). It borders the neighborhoods of Shenandoah...
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  • Harrison is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke, that initially developed in the 1920s as an early Roanoke suburb. It borders the...
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    in Virginia: Abingdon, Charlottesville, Danville, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg and Roanoke. The United States District Court for the District of Virginia was...
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    1833), commonly known as John Randolph of Roanoke, was an American planter, and a politician from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives at...
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  • 96944°W / 37.27361; -79.96944 West End is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke south of the Norfolk Southern railyard. It borders...
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    neighborhoods of Harrison and Gilmer on the west, Washington Park on the north, Williamson Road on the east and Downtown Roanoke on the south. As of the 2000...
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  • The Roanoke Tribune is a weekly newspaper in Roanoke, Virginia. Fleming Alexander founded the Roanoke Tribune newspaper in 1939 at 5 Gilmer Avenue, later...
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  • This is a list of neighborhoods in Roanoke city, Virginia as defined and mapped by the city of Roanoke. The city has 49 officially designated neighborhoods...
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  • on the east, Gilmer, Loudon-Melrose and Shenandoah West on the north across the Norfolk Southern railyard and Norwich across the Roanoke River and Mountain...
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  • Great Wagon Road (category Historic trails and roads in Virginia)
    York, Pennsylvania: Continuing south at Winchester, Virginia: Continue south at Roanoke, Virginia: Continue south at Wachovia, North Carolina: Continue...
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  • governor of Virginia (1585–1590, absentee) Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (Virginia) (1585–1586) John White, governor of Raleigh (Virginia) (1587–1590)...
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    is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Roanoke, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts...
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  • Harriet French Turner (category Artists from Roanoke, Virginia)
    attended the Roanoke Academy of Music and graduated from Roanoke High School in 1907. She taught at Gilmer Elementary School for two years until she married...
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  • Fleming Alexander (category People from Roanoke, Virginia)
    newspaper publisher. Alexander founded and published the Roanoke Tribune in Roanoke, Virginia, which is one of the nation's longest-running black newspapers...
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    West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east...
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  • approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Roanoke in Lewis County and flows west-southwestward into eastern Gilmer County, where it flows into the Little...
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    Spencer, then passing through extremely rural areas of Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, and Lewis counties. US 33 intersects I-79 at Weston. From I-79 east, US 33...
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    Gainsboro Historic District (category Buildings and structures in Roanoke, Virginia)
    Gainsboro Historic District is a national historic district located of Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses 202 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure...
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  • Airport) Richmond (Richmond International Airport) Roanoke (Roanoke Regional Airport) West Virginia Charleston (Yeager Airport) Ram Air Freight operated...
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    in the Eastern United States, designated from I-77 in Charleston, West Virginia, north to Pennsylvania Route 5 (PA 5) and PA 290 in Erie, Pennsylvania...
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    Highway 33/119 West Virginia Route 4 Harrison County (north) Upshur County (east) Webster County (south) Braxton County (southwest) Gilmer County (west) Doddridge...
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    Oliver Hill (attorney) (category Lawyers from Richmond, Virginia)
    time, the Pentecost family bought a larger house, 401 Gilmer Avenue. Hill came to consider Roanoke his childhood home. He later specifically remembered...
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    J. Lindsay Almond (category Democratic Party governors of Virginia)
    the University of Virginia School of Law in 1923. Almond prosecuted criminals as assistant commonwealth attorney of Roanoke, Virginia from 1930 to 1933...
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  • Atlantic Greyhound Lines (category Defunct companies based in West Virginia)
    three in Virginia). Hill and Gilmer together organized the National Highway Transport (NHT) Company in December 1929 in Charleston, West Virginia, to buy...
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    John Smith (explorer) (category Colonial governors of Virginia)
    Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony between...
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    Denver Riggleman (category Businesspeople from Virginia)
    businessman and former politician from Virginia who served one term as the United States representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district. A former...
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    Tim Kaine (category 20th-century Virginia politicians)
    "Death penalty demagoguery," The Roanoke Times (October 13, 2005). Michael D. Shear, Democrat Kaine Wins in Virginia, The Washington Post (November 9...
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